“Climate change is a big scam for a lot of people to make a lot of money.” – U.S. President Donald Trump
A Commentary by Niagara At Large reporter/ publisher Doug Draper
Posted January 21st, 2025 on Niagara At Large
As of this past January 20th, with Donald Trump’s swearing in as President of the United States, Canada no longer has an ally south of the border in the fight against man-made climate change.
Within a few hours of being sworn in for the second time in eight years as U.S. President, Trump signed a tsunami of executive orders. Among them was an order from his high office for the United States to immediately drop out of the nine-year-old Paris Climate Accord, signed by Canada, the U.S. and more than 90 other nations around the world to reduce climate-ravaging carbon emissions.
He also signed orders to kill climate change-fighting programs initiated by Joe Biden during his presidency, including investments in renewable energy projects and hastening the shift from gas-powered to electric vehicles.
Trump vowed to “drill baby drill” which means his administration, according to those orders, will drill for oil wherever it can be found, even if that means drilling in protected wilderness areas or offshore marine mammal sanctuaries.
Within ours of being sworn in as U.S. president, Donald Trump signs executive orders that gut efforts in his country to fight climagte change
That may be music to the ears of Canada’s number one oil baroness Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, but for Canada as a whole, it now means that, even during a time when emergency crews in the Los Angeles area are fighting to put out some of the most devastating wildfires to occur on this continents, we have lost our closest ally in the effort to reduce carbon emissions during a time of global climate crisis.
It may also have political leaders Canada feeling more reluctant to move forward with stronger, more effective measures to fight climate change for fear that to move forward with our closest and largest trading and economic power may encourage industries to leave Canada for countries where the rules and regulations around protecting the environment are weaker and in the short-term, less costly for their shareholders.
All one has to do is look back in history to see how important it is to the economic and environmental welfare of Canada and the United States to have an even playing field when it comes to environmental regulations.
So at a time when scientists around the world are warning us that we are at the tipping point when it comes to addressing a climate emergency that is wreaking ever more environmental and economic damage and destruction, not to mention loss of human life, Trump’s return to power, on the climate issue alone, could not be more dangerous.
It is all the more reason why everyday people across Canada and the United States, and businesses and industries invested in the production and sale of green products, have to work together to fight what Trump and his followers are doing on this issue.
To watch a video featuring Trump shrugging off the climate crisis time and time again, click on the screen below –
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Doug Draper, Niagara At Large
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This is downright UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT on Trump’s part. The reason is simple and obvious: he’s completely disregarding the known facts. And he seems to be oblivious to the fact that we live in a world composed of PEOPLE, WORLDWIDE – of whom he and his supporters constitute a small minority, and are fooling themselves by means of imposing their own extremely dangerous and narcissistic parochialism on everybody else. How’s THAT for U.S. foreign relations? Thoroughly bad, for obvious reasons. And Putin and his mob in the Kremlin are always angling for opportunities to add to the confusion and turmoil at the expense of the U.S. and everybody else, by falsely presenting to everybody how “clever” they THINK they are. Ukraine and all the rest of it. “Special military operation”, my ass! It will likely go down in history as the “sham of the century”.
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I find it so interesting that Trumplethinskin denies climate change but is so adamant about securing Greenland and Canada’s arctic. Could it possibly have anything to do with the North West Passage?
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In my view, Trump’s approach is so incompetent AND UNPROFESSIONAL because of the obvious inattention to the relevant facts involved, and his failure to provide adequate and convincing proof of his statements, that it’s almost beyond belief. Quite apart from other things, his belief in Russian President Vladimir Putin – based entirely on “body language” and claiming to be able to judge his candour by looking into his eyes – is obviously utter nonsense. Trump obviously fails or refuses to see how “body language” such as this can, and frequently IS, used to deceive and confuse the beholder. And deception, lies and obfuscation – backed up in Russia by the FSB (meaning, the old KGB – but under a new name) – constitute Putin’s entire method. I wonder why so many important people in Russia find themselves “falling out of windows”, don’t YOU? HA HA HA!!
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